. The book of antelopes . separates intosmall troops for pairing. He also mentions as a peculiarity of this elegantanimal that when running away it springs up into the air after the mannerof the South-African Spring-buck, and shows its white rump. The fleshof Antilope leucotis, he tells us, is one of the best for culinary female he describes as being very like that of Cervicapra arundinacea,but recognizable at once by the black on the front limbs. Emin, in his Eeise-briefen, refers in several passages to Antilope leucotisas met with on the Upper Nile. Dr. W. Junker, in his Travels
. The book of antelopes . separates intosmall troops for pairing. He also mentions as a peculiarity of this elegantanimal that when running away it springs up into the air after the mannerof the South-African Spring-buck, and shows its white rump. The fleshof Antilope leucotis, he tells us, is one of the best for culinary female he describes as being very like that of Cervicapra arundinacea,but recognizable at once by the black on the front limbs. Emin, in his Eeise-briefen, refers in several passages to Antilope leucotisas met with on the Upper Nile. Dr. W. Junker, in his Travels in Africa,records the capture of a Kala Antelope, Antilope leucotis as far south asthe Upper VVelle (about 3° 30 N. lat.), near Mount Madyanu, and gives afigure of it in his text. Looking to this and to what Dr. Schweinfurth hastold us, we must assume that the present Antelope extends beyond the water-parting of the Nile and Congo down to the banks of the Welle. December, 1896. t2 THE BOOK OF ATI TEL OPES, PE . I /. Snut ue^ (fc /;//: KoId .COBUS THOMAS! Rbliihtd hanhart imp. 131 65. THOMASS KOB. COBUS THOMASI, Neumann.[PLATE XXXIX.] Kobus leucotis, Scl. P. Z. S. 1864, p. 103 (nee auctt.) (Uganda, Speke). Kohis kob,W&ri, Horn Meas. p. 91 (1892); Lugard, E. Africa, i. p. 538 (1893) (Buddu and Kavirondo) ; Jackson, Big Game Shootings i. p. 396 (189J;); Scott Elliot, P. Z. S. 1895, p. 341 (Albert-Edward Lake).Adenota kob, Matschie, Sang. Deutscli Ost-Afr. p. 126 (1895).Adenota koba, MatscMe, op. cit. p. 147 (1895).? Cobus thomasi, Neumann, Sclater, P. Z. S. 1895, p. 868 (Kavirondo) ; Ward, Horn Meas. (2) p. 128 (1896).Adenota thomasi, Neumann, P. Z. S. 1896, p. kob, Scott EUiot, P. Z. S. 1895, p. 341 (Lake Albert-Edward). Vernacular Name :—Nsunnu or Nsunu of the Waganda (Speke, Lugard, ^c). Size about as in C. leucotis, but form thicker and heavier (height at withersof an adult male 35J inches). General colour rich fulvous. Area round
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